WestVirginiaRebel Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Daily Caller: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contractors will resume “stabilization work” at Colorado’s Gold King Mine Saturday, where the agency spilled three million gallons of toxic waste into drinking water for three states last year. The agency announced Friday that “stabilization of the mine” and “stabilization of the mine waste pile” would begin Saturday and continue through October. Such work includes installing steel bracing and removing “dry solids” from an interim treatment plant. Environmental Restoration LLC – an EPA contractor – working at the agency’s orders breached Gold King Mine in August 2015, which unleashed a flood of mine waste containing 880,000 tons of dangerous metals like lead and arsenic. The EPA has since proposed designating Gold King and 47 other mines as a Superfund site, which would open additional funding and property control for mine clean ups. ________ What could go wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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